Hi Hans,
The graphic card will probably not noticeably affect Finale 2k5's
redraw speed, although it will make many of OS X's various bells and
whistles run more smoothly (especially if you upgrade to 10.4 Tiger).
It would probably also help the response time when cycling *between*
windows (as the open documents are cached on the graphics card), but as
soon as something in one of those open windows changes, the redraw is
handled by the CPU, not the graphics card.
However, apparently redraw has been revamped somewhat in Fin2k6. So
it's possible that the new version will include graphics card-assisted
redraws. You might consider emailing Coda and asking them about this.
- Darcy
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On 27 Jun 2005, at 6:05 PM, Hans Arktoft wrote:
Hi,
I'm thinking of upgrading to an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB AGP graphic
card. Having next to no experience in this field, I'd like to ask the
mac gurus on this list if such an upgrade will improve finale's
performance in any way.
Present system is a G4 AGP graphics, upgraded with sonnet 1.7 GHz
processor card, 1.25 GB RAM and 16 MB of VRAM (the Rage128Pro that
came with the machine). OSX 10.3.9 and Finale 2005.
This system runs OK for my needs (mostly), but, as you all know, the
screen redraws are not exactly ultrafast!
Will a faster graphic card be of any help in this respect?
BTW, I'm not much of a gamer, so my only reason for upgrading would be
to improve our beloved Finale's performance : )
Regards,
/Hans
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